Phaedon
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| Author | Moses Mendelssohn |
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| Original title | Phädon oder über die Unsterblichkeit der Seele |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
| Subject | Immortality |
| Published | 1767 |
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| ISBN | 978-1141640836 |
Phaedon (German: Phädon oder über die Unsterblichkeit der Seele), published in 1767, is a book by the Jewish Enlightenment philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, in which Mendelssohn offers a defense of immortality.[1]
Summary
Phaedon is a defense of immortality.[1] Mendelssohn argues that the soul must be indestructible because it is a simple substance.[2]
Reception
One of Mendelssohn's most famous books,[2] Phaedon won him fame.[1] Immanuel Kant criticized Mendelssohn's argument for immortality in the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason (1787), at B413–15.
References
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Goodman 2005. p. 585.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Popkind 1999. p. 556.
Bibliography
- Books
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